This true-color image offers a natural color rendition of what the Great Red Spot and surrounding areas would look like to human eyes from Juno’s position.
(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Björn Jónsson) less

This true-color image offers a natural color rendition of what the Great Red Spot and surrounding areas would look like to human eyes from Juno’s position.
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Raw image taken July 10: "Mortyland, Spot Turbulance"

Raw image taken July 10: "Mortyland, Spot Turbulance"

Photo: NASA / SwRI / MSSS

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Raw image taken July 10: "The Great Red Spot, edge of Great Red Spot, within the wake of the Great Red Spot."

Raw image taken July 10: "The Great Red Spot, edge of Great Red Spot, within the wake of the Great Red Spot."

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. The spacecraft was over 65.9 degrees south latitude, with a lovely view of the south polar region of the planet.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud

This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.

This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter.

Waves of clouds at 37.8 degrees latitude dominate this three-dimensional Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of NASA’s Juno spacecraft. JunoCam obtained this enhanced-color picture on May 19, 2017, at 5:50 UTC from an altitude of 5,500 miles (8,900 kilometers). Details as small as 4 miles (6 kilometers) across can be identified in this image. The small bright high clouds are about 16 miles (25 kilometers) across and in some areas appear to form “squall lines” (a narrow band of high winds and storms associated with a cold front). On Jupiter, clouds this high are almost certainly composed of water and/or ammonia ice.

An even closer view of Jupiter’s clouds obtained by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

An even closer view of Jupiter’s clouds obtained by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Photo: NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

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This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s cloud tops was processed by citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image highlights a massive counterclockwise rotating storm that appears as a white oval in the gas giant’s southern hemisphere.

This enhanced color Jupiter image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, showcases several interesting features on the apparent edge (limb) of the planet.

This enhanced color Jupiter image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, showcases several interesting features on the apparent edge (limb) of the planet.

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson

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This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching the pole, the organized turbulence of Jupiter’s belts and zones transitions into clusters of unorganized filamentary structures, streams of air that resemble giant tangled strings.

This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching

This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights a swirling storm just south of one of the white oval storms on Jupiter. The image was taken on March 27, 2017, at 2:12 a.m. PDT (5:12 a.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed a close flyby of Jupiter. Citizen scientist Jason Major enhanced the color and contrast in this image, turning the picture into a Jovian work of art. He then cropped it to focus our attention on this beautiful example of Jupiter’s spinning storms.

This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights a swirling storm just south of one of the white oval storms on Jupiter. The image was taken on March 27, 2017, at 2:12 a.m. PDT

A close-up of the bright clouds that dot Jupiter’s south tropical zone, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

A close-up of the bright clouds that dot Jupiter’s south tropical zone, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Photo: NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

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This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights a feature on Jupiter where multiple atmospheric conditions appear to collide.

This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights a feature on Jupiter where multiple atmospheric conditions appear to collide.

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Roman Tkachenko

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This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms. Juno acquired this JunoCam image on Feb. 2, 2017, at 5:13 a.m. PDT (8:13 a.m. EDT), at an altitude of 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s cloud tops. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko enhanced the color to bring out the rich detail in the storm and surrounding clouds.

This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms. Juno acquired this JunoCam image on Feb. 2, 2017, at 5:13 a.m. PDT (8:13 a.m. EDT), at an

An even closer view of the bright clouds that dot Jupiter’s south tropical zone, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

An even closer view of the bright clouds that dot Jupiter’s south tropical zone, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Photo: NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

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The Junocam is a color-imaging eye pointed at the Jovian planet. Its gaze is be mostly directed by the public via a public-voting platform. The camera then takes raw images of areas both directed by the public and scientists. Once the images are uploaded, citizens with little to read or watch or otherwise distract themselves with other than news about the new U.S. president are invited to modify the images and upload them to the NASA website. Here are some to enjoy.

Citizen image (NASA caption): NASA’s Juno spacecraft skimmed the upper wisps of Jupiter’s atmosphere when JunoCam snapped this image on Feb. 2 at 5:13 a.m. PT (8:13 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s swirling cloudtops. Streams of clouds spin off a rotating oval-shaped cloud system in the Jovian southern hemisphere. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko reconstructed the color and cropped the image to draw viewers’ eyes to the storm and the turbulence around it.

The Junocam is a color-imaging eye pointed at the Jovian planet. Its gaze is be mostly directed by the public via a public-voting platform. The camera then takes raw images of areas both directed by the public

NASA caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017 at 6:06 a.m. PT (9:06 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 62,800 miles (101,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. From this unique vantage point we see the terminator (where day meets night) cutting across the Jovian south polar region’s restless, marbled atmosphere with the south pole itself approximately in the center of that border.

NASA caption: NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017 at 6:06 a.m. PT (9:06 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 62,800 miles

NASA capiton: Cyclones swirl around the south pole, and white oval storms can be seen near the limb -- the apparent edge of the planet -- in this image of Jupiter’s south polar region taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

NASA capiton: Cyclones swirl around the south pole, and white oval storms can be seen near the limb -- the apparent edge of the planet -- in this image of Jupiter’s south polar region taken by the JunoCam

Citizen image (NASA caption): This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s south pole and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Citizen image (NASA caption): This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s south pole and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno

We've seen what Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- that hellaciously powerful storm that has been tearing up jack for 350-or-so years -- looks like in the raw images take by the agency's spacecraft Juno. We've seen what the big planet and its storm can look like given the Photoshop fancies of citizen scientists.

Now, we get to see what the storm would look like were we to be transported to the $1 billion Juno as it glides over it ... sitting on a lawn chair with a cool beverage in hand.

The agency writes:

NASA released images taken by the JunoCam that show Jupiter's Great Red Spot. NASA says the images represent the first close-up view of the iconic red storm that swirls above Jupiter. (July 13)

Media: Associated Press

This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. This true-color image offers a natural color rendition of what the Great Red Spot and surrounding areas would look like to human eyes from Juno’s position.

The tumultuous atmospheric zones in and around the Great Red Spot are clearly visible. The image was taken on July 10, 2017 ... as the Juno spacecraft performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,648 miles from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

Apparently, the agency says, the Great Red Spot is shrinking. Glenn Orton, a Juno team member and planetary scientist at NASA JPL, explained to Business Insider:

"Think of the GRS [Great Red Spot] as a spinning wheel that keeps on spinning because it's caught between two conveyor belts that are moving in opposite directions. The GRS is stable and long-lived, because it's 'wedged' between two jet streams that are moving in opposite directions," Orton said.

Those jet streams run at about 300 mph and keep "feeding momentum into the vortex," Orton said.